It's been available for five minutes here on the U.S. West Coast and there are already 7 thumb-ups and 8 thumb-downs. I have to presume that these voters are simply saying whether or not they will try it, rather than commenting on the quality of the program.

Which would be a spectacularly stupid thing to do, although many people do just that. You don't store the backup the same place as what you're backing up. If your hard drive dies, your backup goes with it.

In case of a hard drive failure the most efficient way to restore a backup is by having a 'rescue' type bootable medium (CD or USB-stick) which is capable of restoring the backups to the new HD. Without such a facility you'd have to go through the whole installation process of your OS on your new HD AND be able to re-install the backup software before you can restore your backups. With the GOTD version you won't be able to do that. If you're lucky you can use a trial version to restore your backup if it allows such full functionality. Otherwise you'll be forced to buy the software to restore your backup.

I haven't found any reference in the software's specs that it has an option to create such a 'rescue' medium which for instance the different Paragon apps that have backup functionality always do have.

INF 17-29-15 Connecting to the FTP server.
INF 17-29-19 Opening the destination folder on the FTP server.
INF 17-29-23 Backup upload to the FTP server has started.
ERR 17-29-24 Backup upload to the FTP server was aborted due to an error.
INF 17-29-24 Disconnecting from the FTP server.
ERR 17-29-24 Backing up the job was aborted due to an error.
#FAILED

would be more helpful if it said what the error was and how to prevent/avoid it in the future